VPN's don't use TCP because having a reliable protocol with retransmission insid...

lorax on Dec 31, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: The lost Van Jacobson paper that could save the In...

VPN's don't use TCP because having a reliable protocol with retransmission inside another reliable protocol with retransmission can cause lots of extra traffic when a packet is dropped and the data gets retransmitted multiple times, once from each of the protocols.